I named my camel Katrina. She was a natural disaster. She slobbered everywhere and seemed to think the purple streak in my hair was some kind of exotic fruit. She was obsessed with trying to eat my head. I named Walt's camel Hindenburg. He was almost as large as a zeppelin and definitely as full of gas.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
When disaster waves, I try not to wave back.
A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.
Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.
I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.
In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.
Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.
Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.
In nature nothing creates itself and nothing destroys itself.
The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life.
The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.
There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.
In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.
I love jokes, but God, jokes can go so wrong. I have stayed up many nights thinking, "F**k. I can't believe I made that silly little joke. That was a disaster. "
She [Hillary Clinton] wants to go to a single-payer plan, which would be a disaster. . . she wants to go to single-payer, which means the government basically rules everything.
Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.
I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.
Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.